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so is there coming a romulan side in may?

deklak1deklak1 Member Posts: 36 Arc User
edited February 2013 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
hello everyone i read a lot about romulans.
and the photo :wil you march? look like they mean the tal shiar:)
so is there coming a new faction?

thank you for reading this threat and i hope reactions
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  • romuzariiromuzarii Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    I seriously doubt it, but speculating about it is more fun than the status quo of discussion. This is too powerful, that isn't powerful enough. This thing doesn't work. That thing works too well. Cstore costs too much money. Cstore doesn't have enough items. Dil exchange is too high because cryptic is doing it for money. Dil exchange is too low because cryptic is doing it for money. So on and so on.

    It'd be nifty as hell to get started on romulan faction. I'd like to fly those ships, and the devs are seemingly so excited about may that a romulan faction may be the only thing worthy enough to warrant that excitement. In any case it seems it'll be an interesting time for us.
  • disposeableh3r0disposeableh3r0 Member Posts: 1,927 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Nah you're just going to get a set of wings and a march emote.
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  • dirlettiadirlettia Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Maybe not even a march emote. I guess the wings are the dead servers after the game is shut down and the march is us having to go elsewhere. <kidding I hope :)>
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Absolutely! A full fledged, fleshed out, 1 to 50 Romulan Faction is coming out in May. And will be full voice acted through the levelling mission process and have a large contingent of ships to choose from for the 6 races in the Star Empire.

    Get your quantum singularities aligned and finger on your cloak button! Full Warbird Starbase Patrols COMING SOON!

    Or maybe they're just doing a bunch of new stories continuing the plot from the Iconians.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    No idea. It is possible that the Romulan government finally gets their act together instead of lots of factions fighting over control and we face a new Romulan faction. All that is definite is that if there is a new playable faction and KDF doesn't have the level of content that Feds had at launch, then there will be a ton of ticked off KDF players.
  • rovakiinrovakiin Member Posts: 107 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    I too am in serious doubt as to the validity of a new faction. They haven't even finished KDF yet (if ever they will...)

    I don't even know where this new faction rumor started. I checked the wiki and it says if the devs were to do it, it would only be after KDF is "completed" (hardy har har).

    For all we know the whole "March" in may is most likely probably some new adventure zone with a handful of new missions and maybe some Romulan-themed STF's? Who knows.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    One would think that at this point, after five days of rampant speculation about a new faction on the horizon, that They would continue to let slip, the dogs of Forum Mania over this subject without saying that our speculation is way off.

    The news of a new FE being released, has never been handled in this particular style before.

    They've always let it be known that what was coming, WAS a FE, not obfuscate about it in such a manner to be bordering on The Dark Side.

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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    starkaos wrote: »
    No idea. It is possible that the Romulan government finally gets their act together instead of lots of factions fighting over control and we face a new Romulan faction. All that is definite is that if there is a new playable faction and KDF doesn't have the level of content that Feds had at launch, then there will be a ton of ticked off KDF players.
    rovakiin wrote: »
    I too am in serious doubt as to the validity of a new faction. They haven't even finished KDF yet (if ever they will...)

    I don't even know where this new faction rumor started. I checked the wiki and it says if the devs were to do it, it would only be after KDF is "completed" (hardy har har).

    For all we know the whole "March" in may is most likely probably some new adventure zone with a handful of new missions and maybe some Romulan-themed STF's? Who knows.

    I believe that the problem with this line of thinking, is that Cryptic probably has a different definition of the KDF being "Completed"..., as compared to what many players have.

    And truthfully, as long as the game continues to have things added to it, it will never really be "Completed"...

    This is true for any and all Factions in the game, not just the KDF.
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  • janusforbearejanusforbeare Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    My theory is that they'll put up one of those Romulan "Raptor" statues in ESD and the First City throughout the month of March. Done and done. :D
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    The Klingons fear a Romulan empire...They fear the Star Empire will achieve everything they could never, they fear The Romulans to be the equals to the foolish Federation....and The Federation just fears us. ;)
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  • rovakiinrovakiin Member Posts: 107 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    "My theory is that they'll put up one of those Romulan "Raptor" statues in ESD and the First City throughout the month of March. Done and done. "

    Couple that with a new ./emote march and we're set to go! :P
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Of course they will put the statues in ESD, and the first city....It's what Romulans do to show the land as been conquered in the name of the Star Empire. :D
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    daveyny wrote: »
    I believe that the problem with this line of thinking, is that Cryptic probably has a different definition of the KDF being "Completed"..., as compared to what many players have.

    In the past DStahl has been very specific about what it would take to get the KDF up to par, and it has matched what the players were asking for. SO if that's changed, it's in character with Stahl, but it won't do to try and shift that on the players saying the company had a different idea. The company is keenly aware of what's expected here. And has been since Beta. Most definitely since Season 1's fiasco.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    snoggymack22 wrote: »
    In the past DStahl has been very specific about what it would take to get the KDF up to par, and it has matched what the players were asking for. SO if that's changed, it's in character with Stahl, but it won't do to try and shift that on the players saying the company had a different idea. The company is keenly aware of what's expected here. And has been since Beta. Most definitely since Season 1's fiasco.

    Then perhaps both sides have been a bit to grandiose in their expectations...

    The only way the KDF will be able to "catch up" to the Feds, is if Cryptic Stops Adding Stuff, to the Federation side of the game.

    Something that in all likelihood, is never going to happen.
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    daveyny wrote: »
    Then perhaps both sides have been a bit to grandiose in their expectations...

    Not in the slightest. All the KDF wants is to be able to level from 1 to 50. There's a gap in that. Fix the gap, and let people choose Fed or KDF at the beginning and go from there. That's not grandiose. That's pretty average expecation.
    The only way the KDF will be able to "catch up" to the Feds, is if Cryptic Stops Adding Stuff, to the Federation side of the game.

    That's not true at all. Everything about the end-game has been multi-faction playable for ages now. Each new piece of the game added, be it an STF, the DOFF system, or starbases has been playable by both factions. That's already caught up. The only thing that needs attention is the gap that has caused them to make KDF 20 to 50 when Fed is 1 to 50. It's a small hole that needs some filling in. That's it. And that doesn't require stopping creation of Fed stuff or adding stuff. It never has. The end-game, which is where a lot of the new stuff added comes into play, has been fine for the KDF for quite some time. The part the KDF wants completed is the journey to the end-game.
    Something that in all likelihood, is never going to happen.

    On this, we're in agreement. But that's because I feel the person in charge of this project keeps saying "I like the KDF. I want to complete it." And then does the exact opposite. He did this before he went to Zynga. He does this now.

    Based on their track record, this isn't the development team you want creating a new third playable faction. Is it?
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  • darkenzedddarkenzedd Member Posts: 881
    edited February 2013
    It has been heavily hinted at a "new" Romulan faction.

    I really want it, badly!

    Although I also remember that Cryptic, in the past, have been very good at hinting stuff, but then pulling the rug out from under our feet afterwards.

    We can only hope it is indeed true :D
  • thedoctorblueboxthedoctorbluebox Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    we are all getting our hopes up
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  • orondisorondis Member Posts: 1,447 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Most likely it'll be a subfaction, with you allying with either the Federation or the KDF and using their content. Pretty much what Dstahl has said about the possibility of a Romulan faction in the past.

    We'll probably get a few Romulan only missions and the rest will involve playing a factions existing content.

    Not surprising really when you think about it.

    You've got faction specific lockboxes (Krenn and Wells for example), starbases, doffs (of which there are a huge amount now), rep system, doff assignments, fleet actions etc, boffs, c-store equipment.

    That's an awful lot of content.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Based on their track record, this isn't the development team you want creating a new third playable faction. Is it?
    Um, actually... yes. The curent Status of the KDF is acceptable to me. A romulan faction with a third of what the KDF has now would be ok to me.
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  • dma1986dma1986 Member Posts: 541 Arc User
    edited February 2013
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  • temp3rustemp3rus Member Posts: 125 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    I think it will be a sub faction also, but with some FEs and the completion of some of the systems in Tau Dewa( Nimbus and such)
  • thebumblethebumble Member Posts: 2
    edited February 2013
    I think they should fix the multitude of bug fixes from Season 7 before adding more content that you know is going to add even more broken things. Cryptic has not had a release yet that did not break something in the game.

    The problem is, if it to Cryptics benefit (IE:Broken Red Alert in Tau Dewa. Making the grind for Romulan Marks longer.) they don't fix it. But if its to the players benefit, they hotfix the next day.

    They should end the war, and team the KDF and Starfleet against The Borg, Undine and Iconians and drop the premise that Starfleet are the 'Good Guys' and the KDF are the 'Bad Guys'. Federation players have all the toys that made the KDF faction unique, which they use just as much as the KDF players once did. ((As an example see Bio-Neural Warheads. The Federation should never have had them, and should not have them now, but enough players whined while they ate their cheese that Craptic caved and made them available to all.))

    Sure they've added alot of content, to increase your grind so it takes you longer to get where you want to be. Try getting your MACO and Honor Guard sets now. Takes you the better part of a month just to get through the rep system. Then you have to grind out Romulan Marks from a system that's broken and pays a pittance per mission.

    If they do add a Romulan faction, don't be surprised if they start out even worse than the KDF did. That's Cryptics track record.
  • oldkhemaraaoldkhemaraa Member Posts: 1,039 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    seriously... not yet. Though you can make book on thier being a heavy duty FE series.Honestly don't look for and RSE player faction before the 4th anniversery.


    but fun stuff will be a happening
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  • abaddon653abaddon653 Member Posts: 1,144 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    thebumble is right about the bio-neural weapons. The bio-neural warhead is a sentient AI and by all laws of the UFP is due all the rights of any of its citizens they would not be forcing them to kill themselves. The would be the equivalent of strapping their crewmen to torpedoes and launching them at the enemy. Cryptic really dropped the ball there.
  • exa12exa12 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    We might be getting the Roms in may, its optimistic (possibly overly so), but what if they have been working on them as a clump, producing enought content for both KDF ans RSE so they have similar ammounts of content to what the Feds already have.
    abaddon653 wrote: »
    thebumble is right about the bio-neural weapons. The bio-neural warhead is a sentient AI and by all laws of the UFP is due all the rights of any of its citizens they would not be forcing them to kill themselves. The would be the equivalent of strapping their crewmen to torpedoes and launching them at the enemy. Cryptic really dropped the ball there.

    it could simply be they have Bio-neural cuircitry (like the gel packs on voyager) controling them, is it ever said that these ones have AI like the ones from the Delta-Quadrant?

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  • stirling191stirling191 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    abaddon653 wrote: »
    thebumble is right about the bio-neural weapons. The bio-neural warhead is a sentient AI and by all laws of the UFP is due all the rights of any of its citizens they would not be forcing them to kill themselves. The would be the equivalent of strapping their crewmen to torpedoes and launching them at the enemy. Cryptic really dropped the ball there.

    There's a massive difference between an intelligence programmed for combat, and a fully self-aware AI.
  • kristaswiftkristaswift Member Posts: 306 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    According to Dan Stahl's latest interviews there will several more factions coming along to STO. He said "several" in the coming future...this is just a start and finally it will be STO as originally intended...how exciting...:D
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    edited February 2013
    stirling191 wrote: »
    There's a massive difference between an intelligence programmed for combat, and a fully self-aware AI.

    Also, remember the Trill episode of TNG.

    If the missile wants to die in combat, the Federation will accommodate its belief system.
  • felderburgfelderburg Member Posts: 853 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    disposeableh3r0 wrote: »
    Nah you're just going to get a set of wings and a march emote.

    A hahahaha! I lol'd. Best post on the STO forums in a while.

    Although... avians as an alien type would be cool...
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Everything is very Maysteriousy :D
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